HC Deb 18 February 1992 vol 204 cc111-2W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the estimated annual cost of the cervical cancer screening programme.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

There is no reliable current estimate of the annual cost of the cervical screening programme. The cervical screening programme is an integral part of NHS disease prevention activity and the time and resources used to take and process smears cannot be separately identified. Payments made to GPs in connection with the target payment scheme for cervical screening are provisionally estimated to be £48.9 million in England in 1990–91.

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